Hi everyone,
Does anyone have experience with configuring their own sensors onto the Pixhawk (I have an IRIS)? I purchased a gas sensor that I'd like to wire to it, does anyone know of any good resources to help me get started? I've downloaded the PX4 development environment from the Pixhawk developers website and have gone through some of the "getting started" instructions on there, I have been able to install the firmware through Eclipse as opposed to the Mission Planner. I also purchased 3-position and 5-position connectors for the analog inputs.
I was also wondering if there is a way to view the telemetry log data on Mission Planner during flight? If I did add this sensor, would data be saved through the telemetry logs or dataflash logs?
I appreciate whatever help I can get, thank you!
Kate
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Hi Aaron, I am working in a project very similar to what you have done.
I have al ready connect some sensors via i2c to the pixhawk, but I can´t make the changes in the mavlink, can you show us how to make it ?
Aaron Curtis said:
Hi,
Glad I found this post. I have had some success in connecting an Odroid XU4 to a Pixhawk using the UART-USB connection to the telemetry. The sad thing is that the connection is intermittent (might be an issue with my connection setup). however, it does read the gas sensor (I tried an CO2 sensor) connected to the ADC pin on the odroid and display the voltage readings.. the parts per million(concentration levels can be easily obtained from the voltage given). I can send details of how to connect to anyone interested.
What I am in need of is to trace a plume based on the concentration levels and have a drone navigate that to locate the source of the plume.. any ideas would be most welcome..
Good post folks.. Keep up the good work
Cheers
Prasanna
Hi James. An example would be great if you have the spare time!
Hi all,
i am currently working on an px4 i2c driver to communicate with an external board.
i used the hmc5883 and mb12xx drivers as guiding examples.
everything compiles fine but when i try to send data to the external board i get "i2c::transfer returned -6" in the nsh.
is anyone familiar with this problem or can point me in the right direction?
thanks in advance!
Thanks for the encouragement, Eric. Will do!!
It would be great if someone who knows what they are doing could write a set of instructions (including a flow chart) to show how to read an additional ADC pin and send the data to Mavlink and to log the data.
Anyone ?
Hi Katie, I have flown with CO2, SO2, and H2S sensors on an APM. I hooked them up via I2C and then added a new dataflash 'GAS' log message and later also a mavlink message. Would be interested to hear more about your application, and happy to show you the code I used. It's in a local branch but if you remind me I'll push it to github. You can see the discussion I started here.
Hello Aaron,
I want to use some sensors connected to an arduino and then connect the arduino to the pixhawk by i2c to get thoses values in dataflash logs and to in mavlink messages to store them in live in the ground station.
Have you succeeded to do that with your gas sensors ?
Have you some code sample to begin with this ?
Thanks,
Ed.
Aaron,
Glad to see someone else who's accomplished configuring gas sensors to the APM. I have an H2S gas sensor (link here) that I need to configure to the Pixhawk. How did you test/calibrate the sensors? Definitely interested in hearing about your experiments.
Thanks!
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